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CLOTH WINDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.G,1910.

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DAVID GESSNER, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTH-WINDING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

Application filed August 6, 1910. Serial No. 575,880.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, DAVID GESSNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Torcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cloth- Winding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in cloth-treating apparatus and particularly contemplates improvements in winding machines of the character shown and described in my pending application for Letters Patent Serial No. 446,958, tiled August et, 1908, and Serial No. 542,386, filed February 7, 1910, whereby a roll of cloth may be cooled during the unwinding by said machine. i

In describing the details of my improvements and the best way of attachingthem to an unwinding machine for unwinding hot cloth from a steaming-roll just/coming from a heated steaming-chamber, I have selected as the mostJ suitable apparatus to illustrate the salne the machine shown and.

described in my pending application, Serial necessary to disclose the nature of my present invention and a proper manner of carrying '1t out.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents a' side view of one end of my unwinding machine, showing steaming roll 11, theapron roll 14, andthe lap roll m, and some other parts partly in cross section. Fig. 2 shows an end view of the same` end, with the cloth and apron,` however,v

left out. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show the main details of my invention, more or less in cross section, Fig. 6 being a still further detail thereof. Fig. 7 is a side view, and Fig. 8 a top view of my unwinding machine, showing how to apply my invention to the other end of the machine, if desired, and Fig. 9 is a detail thereof.

Before proceeding with a detailed description of my present invention, I would state that I have illustrated the same in connection with a winding machine of substantially the same form shown in the two applications referred to and in this form the machine may consist in part of a pair of bearings adapted to detachably 'receive a hollow steaming roll, one of whlch bearings is driven and the other of which is movable relative thereto to place the roll supported by the bearings in connection with the driven bearing to be drivenv therefrom. The driven bearing is shown at 73 and carries at its inner end a head 113 having an angular-walled socket 111 to receive a squared gudgeon on the steaming roll, said socket piece having a shelf 113" to support the roll when it is not in engagement with the socket either-before or after it is inserted in the latter. The lmovable bearing consists of a slide piece mounted in guides on the top of the frame and carrying a split bearing 12 in which is rotatably mounted a hollow shaft 140 having a head 126 adapted to be moved into engagement with the open end of the cloth roll 11 to connect said head and roll and also to move the latter so as toplace the squared head thereon in driving connection with the shaft 73 by means of the socket 111. On this slidable bearing is a pillar 12 upon which is pivoted a hook 12"` adapted to,be hooked over the flange 131 at the adjacent head of the roll 11so that when the sliding bearing is moved away from the Xed bearing the squared head of the roll will be pulled out of the socket 111. Any suitable means may be employed for sliding the movable bearing, such, for instance, as the threaded shaft 115, Athreaded into the bear- -ing and rotatably mounted in a bracket 118 'on the main frame, said shaft having a crank 114 by means of which it is rotated. All the parts just described are shown in the two applications referredto, and it isv my purpose to further increase the efficiency of the machine b rendering it capable of performing a coo ing and drying'operatlon -while the cloth is being either rolled on or vfrom the`roll 11. While I have shown in ments can be fully understood without such description. 4 Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 shows the hollow perforated steaming roll 11, with its head 131, held detachably by the inserted plunger-head 126 carried by the plunger-barrel, or plunger shaft 140, which in the present instance is made hollow as shown in detail in' Fig. 4.

Shaft 140 has a journal portion 12, between the plunger-head 126 and the collar 113, which can freely revolve in the split sliding-bearing 12, mounted on top of the winding machinevframe, and which can slide also lengthwise in the hollow elbowpiece 141. The screw shaft 115, which is revolubly held between two collars in the bracket 118, secured to the frame, and can also revolve freely in the elbow piece 141, has, at one end, a handle 114, while its opposite end, which ,is scre\\*'-threaded, connects with the screw-threaded portion 116 of the sliding-bearing 12, so as to move the bearing to connect or disconnect the plunger head 126 on shaft 140 from t-he head 131 of the roll l1, as described, the plunger-barrel 140 at the same time sliding back and forth in thehollow elbow piece 141, as shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3. The lower end of the elbow piece 141 is screw-threaded, so as to receive a pipe leading to an air exhauster, or pump, the exhauster being operated only when the plunger-barrel 140 has its head 126 engaged with the roll .11, as shown in Fig. 1. rljhe exhauster may sometimes be applied to the opposite end of the machine, in which case, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the plunger is constructed as shown in said applications, while the shaft 73, which revolves inthe bearings 13 and 13, and which carries the socket head 13 with its projecting receivingshelf 13', may be bored o'ut the entire length, as shown in detail in Fig. 9. The pocket 111, in the socket head 13 of the shaft 73 (see Fig. 9), which receives the square end of roll 11 when placed into the winding machine, has a packing ring 145 inserted in the rear thereof, against which the square end of the roll 11 will be pressed to make an air-tight. joint when the handle 114 is turned to move thebearing 12, with the plunger head126, forward, to lock the roll 11. The opposite end of the shaft- 73 carries a collar 144, to which is screwed a packing-nut 73', reaching around the pipe 73 and making an air-tight joint. The pipe 73 is held fast by the bracket 73, which is held rigidly upon' a stud 76 screwed to pad 77 Secured to yoke 6 of the main frame, thus holding the pipe 73 rigidly, while the shaft 73 may be revolved freely.v The pipe 73 being connected to an exhauster, the air may be drawn through a body of cloth, wound upon the perforated steaming roll 11, as readily from that end as from the other. In practising my invention the hot steamlng roll 11 is placed in -the winding machine and the cloth is connected to the lap- 1'011 m4 and the apron to the apron-roll 14,

and the machine is then operated to wind the clot-h off the roll 11 onto the roll m4 and the apron onto the roll. 14, all of which is fully described in detail in my said application Serial No. 542,386, during which unwinding operation the pump is operated to suck cooling air through the roll 11 to cool the cloth. By this method of procedure the outer layer of cloth is cooled and immedi-` ately removed so that each outer layer is successivelyY subjected to the action of cool air, instead of the inner layers being subjected to air which has become heated through contact with previous layers, as in the old method.. lt will thus be seen that my invention makes it possible, by causing but a slight change at a trifling expense in the construction of my winding and unwinding machine (as shown and described in my pending applications, Serial Numbers 446,958 and 542,386), to coolthe cloth during the act of unwinding` without necessitating first a. transfer of a hot cloth-roll from a steaming-chamber to either a cooling chamber, a cooling frame, o r a cooling room, which transfer means a delay of from one half hour to twentysfour hours and a great deal more work, without accomplishing any more than I can by my new machine.

That I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is l. In a cloth winding machine, in combination, a frame, a cylindrical perforated open-ended cloth roll, a pair of bearings on the upper portion of the frame, means whereby one of said bearings is slidable toward and away from the other bearing, a

shaft in each of. said bearings in longitudinal alinement with each other, the shaft in the sliding bearing'being hollow, and communicating through its end portion with the interior of said cloth roll through the open end of the latter, said shaft being provided with a head to engage and close the open end of the cloth roll, and with an ex tension outside its bearing, a bracket on the frame, a chamber supported b v the bracket and having a horizontal portion slidably receiving 4said extension of the shaft., and air suction means connected with said chamber.

2. In a cloth winding machine, in combination, a frame` a cylindrical perforated open-ended cloth roll, a pair of bearings, means whereby one of said bearings is slidable transversely of the' frame toward and away from the other bea ring. a shaft in each of said bearings in longitudinal alinement with each other, the shaft in the slidable bearing being journaled therein at a point intermediate its ends and communicating through its inner end portion with the interior of the cloth roll through the hollow open end 'of the latter, said shaft being provided on its innerend with a head to engage and close the open end of the cloth roll, a bracket on the frame, a chamber supported by the bracket and having a horizontal portion slidably receiving the outer end of said hollow shaft, and air suction means connected with said chamber.

8. In a'cloth winding machine, in combination, a frame, a cylindrical perforated open-ended cloth roll, a pair `of bearings, means whereby one of said bearings is slid"- able transversely of the frame toward and away from the other bearing, a shaft in each of said bearings in longitudinal alinement with each other, the shaft in the slidable bearing being journaled therein at a point intermediate its ends and communicating through its inner end portion with the interior of the cloth roll through the hollow open end of the latter, said shaft being provided on its inner end with a head to engage and close the open end of the clot-h roll, a chamber supported `by the frame and having a horizontal portion slidably receiving the outer end of said hollow shaft, and air suction meansconnected with said charnber.

4. In a cloth winding machine, in combination, a frame, a cylindrical perforated open-ended cloth roll= a. pair of bearings on intermediate its ends, said shaft being hollow and communicating through its inner end portion with the interior of the cloth roll through the hollow end of the latter, said hollow shaft being provided with a head on its inner end to engage and close the open end of the cloth roll, a bracket on the frame, an elbow shaped'bracket having its dependent member supported by the bracket and having a horizontal member slidably and rotatably ,receiving the outer end of said hollow shaft, and air suction means connected with said dependent member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID GESSNER.

Witnesses M. E. MCNINCH, C. G. HEYLMUR. 

